Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 108

But the Tsar took him by the hand and rewarded him with a generalship, and degraded the brother into the ranks, telling him he must not disown his own kin.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: take, reward, degrade, tell, not disown · To what, where: sentry, TSAR, brother, ranks, own kin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rewarded	cc
10	rewarded	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rewarded	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 generalship	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 generalship	det
14	generalship	generalship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rewarded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 degraded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 degraded	cc
17	degraded	degrade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 brother	det
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 degraded	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 ranks	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ranks	det
22	ranks	rank	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 degraded	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 telling	punct
24	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 degraded	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 telling	iobj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 disown	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 disown	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 disown	advmod
29	disown	disown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 telling	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 kin	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 kin	amod
32	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 disown	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Tsar		sentry		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	reward	past	the Tsar not said here		TSAR		with a generalship	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with generalship=Theme
3	degrade	past	the Tsar not said here	the brother		the ranks		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Tsar not said here		TSAR			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not disown	must	TSAR	TSAR's own kin				tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 108